Cambridge Coincidences Collection

Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University wants to know about your coincidences!

First arriving to Barcelona at (10-11 am) we took a taxi between the train station and the Hotel in the city center. The driver was a very funny guy and easy to remember.
Later on the day (19 hrs), we stop for a taxi on the other side of the city to go back to the hotel... Same Driver, some vey unlikely in a city with 10481 taxis in the city (1). It was a fist for the taxi driver too.
(1) http://www.stac.cat/datos-estadisticos-de-taxis-en-catalunya/

I used to be a member of an amateur dramatic group in Galway, Ireland and became very friendly with one woman in particular. I left this wonderful city to work in London. About 18 months after leaving I was standing with my boyfriend on the Notting Hill Circle Line platform to Baker Street. We had a game that one was to pick a spot on the platform that would stop in front of a door. It was my turn and so I picked a spot.

I booked a round the world ticket with a travel agent. It was very bespoke - just the key flights with my daughter and I doing independent travel between airports.
We were crossing from San Pedro de Atacama into the Bolivian altiplano six months later, swapping transport from Chilean buses to Bolivian 4x4s.
The drivers had stopped for a coffee break and all the passengers were milling around waiting. I was talking to someone about my trip when I heard a voice say "are you Julian?".

In the week after Christmas 2014 we went to see Peter Pan, a Pantomime in Dartford Kent, The venue was some 60 miles by road from our home in West Sussex.
Whilst waitiing in the theatre's foyer for admission to the auditorium were were standing close to a family which included a young man who I guess would be in his mid twenties. Unfortunately he was "not all there" and repeatedly pulled an old mobile phone out fo his pocket and had a fairly loud but incoherent "conversation" with no-one as the phone was obviously not switched on.

I left my old job to continue a small business with a widow after the passing of her husband,my second name is Farai so was her husband and their son, I'm n auto electrician so was the late , my first name is COLLEN and the widow's LORREEN I was born on the 03/08/70 she was born on 09/08/85 same month we share the same totem " monkey" we are not related but originally come from the same tribe, I found the pattern striking, would b glad if someone can explain

Los Angeles, CA: Shortly after my breakup, I was driving home at about 2 a.m. and who happens to pull up alongside me at a red light? You guessed it. Granted there was no one else on the road.
San Fran, CA: About 3 months after my breakup, I took a trip to San Francisco and went to a Chinese restaurant in the heart of Chinatown. Who do you think was there? You guessed it again. The next day I was walking through a different part of the city of San Francisco.

I grew up in a town called Port Pirie then I moved 2000km away only to meet and marry a man who's last name is Pirie. We bought a house in, you guessed it, Pirie Street. my mother in law moved into a flat in Oak street, my parents live in a house on Oaks Road. When I moved back to Port Pirie, I bought a house in Henry Street, my father's name is Henry. Oh yes, and I'm a twin.

Customer Service were discounting my friend's christmas tree which they had just over charged her for. Like a child I was repeating in my head my friends pin number for her card as I was sure I'd need to use it. As I stood talking to the lady she started reading my friend's pin number to me. I so wanted to say something but it was obviously inappropriate. She ended the 4 digits with an additional number 1. It turns out it was the product code on the christmas tree.

I am frequently seeing 111, 1111. Whether on a clock, address, purchase price, highway, birthday, etc.
Now I am seeing 444, 555, 1212 everywhere as well. I can no longer believe this is just coincidence.

Like pouring salt in a wound.....my Ex's name kept popping up frequently.
Not really a common name (let's say Brett).
The new Barista's name, painted on the side of a truck driving along side me, client's name...etc.
All I could say is "Ouch"!